Phonics is a method for teaching reading and writing of the English language by developing learners phonemic awareness—the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes—in order to teach the correspondence between these sounds and the spelling patterns (graphemes) that represent them. The goal of phonics is to enable beginning readers to decode new written words by sounding them out, or, in phonics terms, blending the soundspelling patterns. Since it focuses on the spoken and written units within words, phonics is a sublexical approach and, as a result, is often contrasted with whole language, a wordlevelup philosophy for teaching reading. Since the turn of the 20th century, phonics has been widely used in primary education and in teaching literacy throughout the Englishspeaking world. More specifically, synthetic phonics is now the accepted method of teaching reading in the education systems in the UK and Australia.
Book Four o el Sh o v o t r w o o Written and illustrated by Miz Katz N Ratz A Progressive Phonics book T.M Copyright (c) 2004 2005 by Miz Katz N Ratz, patent pending Quick Start Guide Read the book WITH your child You read the “regular” text, and he/she reads the big, red words, sort of like reading the different parts in a play Help your child sound out the words as needed c-a-t cat Read the book several times This helps develop the eye muscles and left-to-right reading patterns that are necessary for reading Don’t rush it Body builders don’t train in a day, neither does a child C AB o k Bo ABC ABC If your child is having difficulty, he/she might need more practice with the alphabet Get a fun book about the alphabet and read that lots of times Then come back to Progressive Phonics And most important of all, HAVE FUN! Book Four - page i Short Vowel “o” contents snf dot got hot lot not pot Today the sun was much too hot I got a lot of toys for my birthday I got very hungry The little i and the little j both have got a dot cop hop mop pop top How far can you hop? I can’t find the mop I can’t pop balloons To make a sandwich for a cop dog hog log My dog likes to dress up We sat on a log If a hog eats like a hog My dog can sleep like a log cod nod If I nod my head A cod is a fish that lives in the ocean on I went into the kitchen I like sugar on my carrots Book Four - page ii bob job rob sob A robber wanted to rob a bank Sally is crying, sob, sob, sob of My plate is made of silver I got in a lot of trouble I would eat a bowl of bugs box fox ox I put socks on a fox mix it up If I had a hot dog If I had a box of chocolates My dog has a dot Bob has a job A hog sat on top of my house Book Four - page iii b was much too hot – too hot to run, too hot to play ball, and much too hot to have fun at all b Today the sun Book Four - page got a lot of toys for my birthday I got cake and ice cream too And if you are very nice to me, b I’ll share a lot with you I Book Four - page I was hungry, got a pot, I got some carrots, and I got a lot of peas Then I got the pot so I very, very hot; got a spoon, and I ate a lot then I Book Four - page b both have got a dot; Little “i” and little “j” while all the other letters b not have a dot BUT b The big “I” and the big “J” b not have a dot – maybe they are just too tall to have a dot at all Book Four - page b hop – can you hop to the top? And can you hop as fast as a hop, hop, mop? How far can you Book Four - page mop, so I can’t mop the floor But if I don’t mop the floor, I can’t go out and play b I can’t find the So I guess I’ll have to find the mop right behind the door Book Four - page b I went into the kitchen, and I b b on the light A monkey jumped b up on the fridge – he gave me quite b a fright He was b turned eating peanut butter b on a slice of whole wheat bread He had shoes on his feet and a hat was on his head I called the police at 9-1-1 – b they said the monkey was my mother’s b other son b Book Four - page 15 sugar I like sugar on my carrots, on my peas, sugar on most everything – sugar, sugar, please b sugar Book Four - page 16 ... alphabet Get a fun book about the alphabet and read that lots of times Then come back to Progressive Phonics And most important of all, HAVE FUN! Book Four - page i Short Vowel “o” contents snf... A hog sat on top of my house Book Four - page iii b was much too hot – too hot to run, too hot to play ball, and much too hot to have fun at all b Today the sun Book Four - page got a lot of... lot with you I Book Four - page I was hungry, got a pot, I got some carrots, and I got a lot of peas Then I got the pot so I very, very hot; got a spoon, and I ate a lot then I Book Four - page